On this day has now been running for over three years. As there is not a lot more I can add to it, this is the final time that I will be posting this history thread. Thanks for all your interest.

On this day December 31st:
406-80,000 Vandals attacked the Rhine at Mainz.
1491-Jacques Cartier, French explorer was born in St. Malo, France.
1492-100,000 Jews were expelled from Sicily.
1695-A window tax was imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
1720-The birth, in Rome, of Bonnie Prince Charlie, (Charles Edward Stuart), also known as the ‘Young Pretender.’
1738-The birth in London of Charles Cornwallis, the British soldier whose surrender to George Washington (1781) ended the War of Independence.
1879-Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1908-Jewish liar Simon Wiesenthal persecuter of Germans who made millions out of the holohoax was born of a jackal in Poland.
1912-Major-General John Frost, British para commander was born in Pune, India.
1921-Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania died in Washington D.C. aged 61.
“All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated..." — Boies Penrose, 1902
1980-A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya was bombed killing 18.
1999-Vladimir Putin became acting Russian President as Boris Yeltsin resigned.
2006-The number of Americans killed for their Jewish masters in the war against Iraq reached 3,000.

Over the years, 'on this day' has help me to mark numerous important anniversaries that I would have otherwise missed. The posts have also contained a great deal of interesting information. I shall miss them.